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This is an Open Thread.
It has been a busy week, with not enough time to cover the other important news, events and just some “stuff”.
First some the election news.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker won the Democratic nomination to fill the Senate vacancy in New Jersey that was left with the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. He beat Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, Reps. Rush Holt and Frank Pallone. But, hey, what’s another corporate “bright shiny object” in the Senate. He will face Republican Steve Lonegan in a special election on October 16.
In the New York City mayoral primaries, the focus has been on the Democrats. Anthony Weiner’s lack of self control and awareness has him sinking in the polls giving liberal Bill De Blasio, the current Public Advocate, a chance to shine and shine he did. De Balsio has taken the lead from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. according to Tuesday’s Quinnapiac poll:
Among likely Democratic voters, de Blasio took 30 percent of the vote, followed by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at 24 percent, former comptroller Bill Thompson at 22 percent, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) at 10 percent, comptroller John Liu at 6 percent and former council member Sal Albanese at 1 percent. Another 7 percent was undecided.
De Blasio also held the lead in three potential runoff scenarios, beating Quinn by 54 percent to 38 percent, Thompson by 50 percent to 40 percent, and Weiner by a whopping 72 percent to 22 percent.
De Blasio’s opposition to Stop n’ Frisk and message that appeals to the middle and working classes have started to resonate.
In the race for NYC’s Comptroller, former governor Eliot Spitzer has a 19 point lead over his opponent Manhattan Borough President Scott Springer. Wall Steet is not happy. Good. They should be afraid. Eliot with subpoena power may be an awesome sight.
The three Republican candidates, John Catsimatidis, George McDonald and Joseph Lhota, met for a debate last night. Essentially their message was: “Good job, Bloomie” and promised more of the same. Not exactly a winning message, guys.
Any way, the NYC primary day is September 10, then the real fun begins.
On to the blogs.
From Firedoglake:
- Google Says Gmail Users Should Have No Expectation of Privacy
by DSWright - McConnell’s Pathetic Predicament on Obamacare Shutdown Threat
by Jon Walker - Center For American Progress Says Larry Summers ‘Not A Wall Street Guy’
by DSWright - New York City Comptroller Calls for Marijuana Legalization
by Jon Walker - Bradley Manning Pleads With Judge to Allow Him to ‘Return to Productive Place in Society’
by Kevin Gosztola
TBogg says his “farewell” to his blog at FDL, at last.
Over at Corrente:
Lambert‘s Obamacare Cluster F**k continues:
- Out-of-pocket limits delayed for the convenience of insurance companies who didn’t reprogram their systems
- Kaiser explains to poor people in non-Medicaid expansion states how to game the system by lying
This from lambert will either make you sick or raise your blood pressure to stroke levels:
Then he asks this question:
From transcriber:
At naked capitalism:
- The FBI’s 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report Reveals Why the Banksters Love Holder
by Bill Black - Fixing Old Markets With New Markets: the Origins and Practice of Neoliberalism
by Nathan Tankus - The Real Foreclosure Scandal: Why Have Virtually No Lawyers Been Disbarred?
by Yves Smith - Rajan Calls Krugman “Paranoid” for Criticizing Reinhart’s and Rogoff’s Research
by Bill Black - Why is Obama So Keen to Appoint Larry Summers to the Fed?
by Yves Smith
From Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel:
- The Two OLC Still-Secret Memos Behind the Cross-Border Keyword Searches?
- Administration’s OWN White Paper Backs Claim Mike Rogers Did Not Share Dragnet Notice
From our friends at Voices on the Square:
- Gender Prison: Ranting by proxy
by Robyn - Hellraisers Journal: Militia Leaving Michigan Copper Country
by JayeRaye
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
- A Guide to the Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Officials Use to Mislead the Public About NSA Surveillance
by Trevor Timm - Multiple New Polls Show Americans Reject Wholesale NSA Domestic Spying
by Trevor Timm
I knew there was another reason I admired Bette Midler other than her singing:
HUH. The architect of bank deregulation, which turned straitlaced banks into casinos and bankers into pimps, may be next Head Fed: Summers.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) August 10, 2013
Larry Summers, Mr. De-Regulation, has never stepped forward to say…"Oops! My bad!" Five years of a world wide recession, and not a peep.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) August 12, 2013
Larry Summers, a HUGE ADVOCATE of higher exec pay and bonuses for execs whose firms received billions in federal bailouts during the crisis.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) August 12, 2013
Of course, Alan Greenspan, an acolyte of demented, delusional, adulterous Ayn Rand, never apologized or never admitted his failures, either.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) August 12, 2013
h/t Atrios at Eschaton
The woman rocks in more ways than you’d expect.
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Of course you have to ignore that Summers was the architect of the current depression through elimination of Glass-Steagal, the reward to bankers for the enormous damage done to the economies of the entire planet, the degrading of women’s aptitude and intelligence.
Bette Midler is most kind to Summers IMO.
Best, Terry